Am I at Risk for Hypertension?

by Christian Goodman

Every time you have a fight with your spouse or your kids, you feel angry, your face gets red, your heart start pounding hard, and you even get a headache. If you take your blood pressure at that time, it will be alarmingly high.

As our emotion gets intense, our blood pressure shoots up. This is a natural reaction and once your fear or anger subsides, your blood pressure will return to normal levels. More often than not, high blood pressure is only diagnosed when it remains consistently high over a prolonged period of time.

The only way to know is to have it checked on a routine basis, once every couple of years as a bare minimum. If you have any of the following symptoms, you may indeed suffer from hypertension, or high blood pressure. Be aware you could also have high blood pressure without any of these symptoms; that's why it's so important to check your blood pressure regularly.

Dizziness Chest pain Headaches Shortness of Breath Blurred Vision or other visual abnormalities

People in the traditional medical system say that roughly 95%of high blood pressure is from unknown causes, and it is called essential hypertension. Such a big percentage is very alarming, but you can do something about it.

There are risk factors you can control and those you cannot. Examples of risk factors you can't control include your heredity, your age, and your race. The older you get, the greater your risk for developing high blood pressure.

Most commonly, hypertension occurs in men between thirty-five and fifty years old. In women, it commonly occurs after menopause. Also, if a family member has it, your risk of getting it is increased.

Your race also contributes to your chances of getting hypertension. African Americans have a higher tendency of developing it earlier and more frequently than Caucasians. You cannot control those risk factors, and you cannot do anything to change them.

But there are many areas you do have control over that have a direct impact on whether you'll develop high blood pressure. Eating too much salt, excess alcohol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking and stress all contribute to the development of high blood pressure. How many of those risk factors do you have?

High blood pressure, if left unchecked and untreated can lead to more serious health problems with long-term consequences, like brain, heart, and kidney damage. The eyes can be damaged as well if fragile blood vessels erupt in that area. Some of the dangerous health conditions that can develop because of high blood pressure include:

Irregular heartbeats, called arrhythmias Heart attack or brain attack (known more commonly as a stroke) Chronic kidney disease, ultimately resulting in kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant Hardening of the arteries, called atherosclerosis CHF - Congestive heart failure, a condition in which your heart becomes too weak to be efficient at pumping your blood.

The conventional way of treating hypertension is thru aggressive drug therapy, intended to push down your blood pressure, but with numerous side effects. However, more often than not, they do not even get the blood pressure down because like I said earlier, 95% of the causes of high blood pressure is unknown.

But I do so I've created a remarkable High Blood Pressure Program designed to drive down your blood pressure like what medicines do but without all the side effects.

The exercises are simple and takes very little time to learn and even less time to do. This program is a natural way to lower your blood pressure and helps you handle the stress that's so often the reason for your blood pressure problems. You can find out more about this amazing program here

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This post was written by Christian Goodman on August 12, 2009

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Why Do I Get Migraine Headaches?

by Marion Jones

Headaches of any kind are always very painful for the sufferer. However, some headaches, such as migraines, for example, can create even more problems than just a headache. These problems could be nausea, sensitivity to light and a throbbing pain in the head. Sometimes the headache is felt on one side of the head, and other times you can feel the pain on both sides of your head at the same time.

The real causes of migraine headaches has not yet been discovered, although there are some theories why people have migraine headaches. The most common theory is that a change in the blood flow within the brain is one of the triggers that causes migraine headaches. Another theory about migraine headache is that it could possibly be caused by pain sensing chemicals called neuropeptides.

Many medical professionals think that neuropeptides relax the muscle that surrounds the cranial blood vessels. This relaxation causes the blood vessels to dilate. The relaxed blood vessels increase the flow of blood and other cranial fluid to the brain. This increase in fluids is thought to be the cause of migraine headaches.

These cranial fluids cause swelling, pain, sensitivity, tissue and blood vessel swelling during the time of the migraine headaches. Some people think that the aura that is sometimes seen during a migraine headache is caused by the constriction of the blood vessels that became dilated during the starting period of the migraine headache.

Another theory about the reason for migraine headaches has been linked to genetics and inheritance. These theories say that a child of migraine sufferers will have a 50% probability of getting migraine headaches too.

The chances of having migraine headaches becomes even greater if both parents are sufferers of this painful type of headache. If both parents are known to have frequent migraine headaches the chances of the child inheriting migraine headache symptoms is about 70%.

Even though many professionals are persuaded that inheritance plays a big part in migraine headaches, the genes that are considered to be the causes of migraine headaches have not been identified or even isolated yet. When we start to experience migraine headaches the only warning signs that we may expect to receive are a throbbing pain in the temple area and slight sickness.

As the symptoms of the migraine progresses, the pain becomes much worse. Unfortunately, since the causes of migraine headaches have not been found and we don't know what triggers these attacks, there are no medications to cure this sort of headaches yet.

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This post was written by Marion Jones on July 23, 2009

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Panic Attack Symptom – Freedom From Your Panic Attack Symptom

by James Shaw

People that have an hysteria attack can also have what's known as a panic attack. These attacks can be due to various tensions that occur in life. Whilst having an attack of foreboding can be mild to severe, the attacks of panic are occasionally in the more grim range. Let's look more detail at both these categories of attacks to see what causes them and how they can be treated.

Many times we are able to get distressed over our private scenarios. This will cause us to be depressed and feel like life looks bleak. This depression can cause folk feeling anxiety and therefore they may experience a panic attack symptom or multiple panic attack symptoms, which can come with symptoms such as shortness of breathe, heart palpitations, and dizziness. These attacks are typically short-lived, but in some cases if not treated can turn into an attack of panic. A panic attack usually has a higher degree of fear associated with them than the attacks of anxiety. This will even include a feeling of apprehension that is just about paralyzing. Occasionally an attack of panic is bad enough that it can feel like a heart attack!

There are plenty for treatments today available for depression and attacks of anxiety or panic. They can range from simple meditation to talk therapies to medicines. Varying degrees of these issues have to have different treatments. Whilst meditation will work with mild forms of depression and attacks of stress, it customarily takes medicine and/or talk therapies for the more severe cases of these. A panic attack customarily is more severe by nature and will require the talk therapies and/or medicine to totally handle the problem. Of course the meditation can be used in addition to different types of treatment at all times.

Meditation is good for relaxing the mind and body. Once relaxed, the minor agitation attack or depression generally goes away. But with attacks of panic, meditation usually isn't effective enough, though it can still help along with other therapies.

Talk therapy, which is sometimes called psychotherapy, can be effective in several cases for depression, attacks of anxiety and panic too. It involves talking with a psychiatrist about the issue you are having. This professional can offer you many different kinds of this sort of therapy, one is thought of as cognitive behavior therapy. This kind of care targets your behavior helping you change whats causing your problems or issues. This has a high success rate particularly in phobias, which is another branch of the anxiety attack. Phobias can also produce a panic attack.

There are plenty of forms of medicines given out today for any one that suffers with the frequency of an hysteria attack, depression, or a panic attack symptom. While some of the side effects of these medicines can be heavy in some folks, they are still worth taking because they solve a much bigger issue, the sensation of panic. To paraphrase, folks get way too much relief from their symptoms with using them. This overshadows the complications anybody can have. So do not just suffer silently, you may find the correct treatment for you that can address your fear of having an hysteria attack or panic attack.

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This post was written by James Shaw on July 9, 2009

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